From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Ivan Novick" <ivandn@abac.com>
To: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: killing a process -- kill(id, SIGKILL);
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:51:00 -0000
Message-id: <003b01c142bc$c0fc7560$62a637d8@novick>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00099.html

Hi,

I am killing a child process with

kill(id, SIGKILL);

the process is still displayed when issuing the command ps -a except it says
<defunct>

Is this the best way to kill a process?

Thanks,
Ivan